Cooking in the classroom has never been easier - or more delicious - than with this collection of 27 cooking activities for kids!
Encourage language development, while fostering fine motor skills, following directions and other functional life skills. Cooking in the classroom with visual recipes, step by step recipes to foster those super important life skills, and work on those IEP goals and objectives... all at the same time!
I made it through the first week and what a time we had! I have 22 students this year, but 5 of them were out on the first day! The second day I had 5 students out again, but I had a student come who had been sick the first day, and one was gone for a dental appointment. The third day I had 5 out again and on Thursday the one who had a dental appointment for two days came back and another student who just got back from vacation showed up! So by Friday I had 19 students with 3 that are still on vacation! Our state went to the year round system two years ago and it has not been a good schedule. We have many families that travel in the summer and don't come back until September!! So needless to say as I was trying to train all the rest and had students trickling in not knowing what to do and having to repeat myself many, many times! But overall it was a great week. This is a cute lively bunch who seem really happy to be back in school. They laugh at my goofy jokes and give me hugs all day long:) Things that I loved this week. My new clip chart! The kids loved this!! Over half the kids in my class are surfers and they thought this was the greatest thing ever!! It helped me focus on the positive and they all wanted to get to Cowabunga soo bad!! My dolphin magic wand!! I used this to get attention and we practiced alot!! It's such a soft, nice sound and they were quiet instantly when they heard it! Click on the wand to go to their site:) My New Rug What a time saver!! I love how they come sit down in their spot and there is no arguing about where to sit! My new book bags I feel so organized and they look so nice with matching numbers where they should hang. My word wall We added a few important words and I love that I can just write it on the board. My new students:) They really are cute and such pleasers this year:)) Things That Didn't Go So Well Our new schedule The whole school is implementing RTI and we have an intervention block the last half hour of school. We have also been given a new daily schedule after 7 years of the same one. I was off the whole week and running late for everything. Every night I went home exhausted and felt like I hadn't accomplished anything!! My classroom printer I am lucky to have a laser printer in my room and have depended on it for two years now. Well it is not connecting to my laptop and I have not been able to print anything from it, so all my parent letters will be a week late:( And I still have not found my Bulletin board letters!!!???I just don't know where to look?? I ordered new sets in May with my classroom money, but guess what?? The order was never placed because the money was just released!!! So many of the items I was depending on I do not have:( Okay I will stop whining now and end with our fun Friday activity. I love to have cooking projects in my class. I call it cooking but we never use heat. I have done this since I began teaching in Kindergarten 20 years ago!! Since our first science unit is life cycles of plants and animals I start off the year making fruit salad. Homework on Thursday night was to bring in a piece of fruit. I can't believe the spread we had this year!! I have Never gotten a pineapple before, lol! I have a recipe that we read together, then I call 3 kids back at a time to cut up their fruit and place it in the bowl. We go over rules of washing hands, not licking the knives, no sneezing on the food and no licking our fingers. I cut up the apples and core them and they do the rest with a plastic knife. The rest of the class decorates their recipe page, and then works together on a fruit word search. I usually do a graph of "What is Your Favorite Fruit", but I just didn't have it together this year!! I keep their recipe page and we place it into our cookbooks (that I will have a parent make later). After everyone cuts up the fruit we mix it up, talk about good manners, serve everyone, and all eat together. Even the teacher eats some:) The kids love it and always look forward to the next project:) Here is the recipe page and the cover I use for our cookbooks. Just click on the picture to grab it in Google Docs.
This is a matching activity for cooking terms and their definitions. It can be used as a simple worksheet or the answer key can be cut into strips and done in small groups as a matching activity. - ESL worksheets
This is a matching activity for cooking terms and their definitions. It can be used as a simple worksheet or the answer key can be cut into strips and done in small groups as a matching activity. - ESL worksheets
As you can probably tell from some of my previous posts, I absolutely love cooking with my kids! We don't get to do in near as often as I would like since we have to finance it with our own money and it can get quite pricey. We still are trying to do it at least once or twice a month, and my aide are great about helping out with ingredients! Every time we get ready to try a new recipe I like to have a visual to go with it. This way we can go over the recipe step by step before we head into the kitchen to do the actual cooking. We always send a copy home (in hopes that their folks let them try to make it there) and we put one in their binders that they take home when they graduate. As you can see they go from pretty basic recipes to a little more challenging as to try to find things that all my kids will be able to make independently. You can find the recipe book here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Follow-Along-Recipes-989267
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Vocabulary worksheet containing KITCHEN vocabulary. It has two sections: Match words and pictures (matching exercise) and Write the Words (creative exercise). - ESL worksheets
These books and worksheets make it easy to teach and practice cooking skills in the classroom! Included in this set is recipes for jello (2 recipes, one for on the stove AND one for in the microwave) and instant pudding. All you'll need is a packet of jello (and water) and a packet of instant pudding and milk! A one page laminated visual recipe is included with each recipe. FREE 8 PAGE VISUAL RECIPE WORKSHEET DIGITAL DOWNLOAD! (with purchase) Contact us at [email protected] to have the digital download emailed to you. Recipe worksheets include: - Sequencing (1 worksheets - 3 levels. 1: Cut and paste both pictures and sentences, 2: Partial cut and paste and draw/write the other half, 3: Draw and write the recipe steps.) - Review / Quiz (2 levels. 1: symbol supported 2: text) Books can be used for 2 levels of students. They can be used in the classroom as practice for cooking (great for classrooms without access to kitchens) or as recipe guides while cooking. ***2 ways to use while reading: Have students take the icons off the bottom page and match to each page OR have students take the icons off the page and match to the picture on the bottom. Great way to use the same book for different levels of students.*** Get the entire class involved with cooking by giving each student a page to complete. Each recipe is broken down into multiple different steps. (Extra steps may be included in the book that aren't seen in the one page recipe in order to provide more step by step practice, especially if the students aren't able to practice it in the kitchen!) Like to Prep these yourself? The digital download can be purchased here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Interactive-Cooking-Lessons-Visual-Recipes-for-Pudding-and-Jello-Special-Ed-2545953
With Architecture for children, you have the opportunity to create a space that is, in many ways, architecture without clear boundaries. While the design process is done by adults, the final users are often children which is evident in kindergartens, schools and parks. Therefore, architects have a responsibility to ensure that the built environment gives […]
This worksheet will help students recognize cooking utensils and action verbs. The students have to link the utensil with the picture showing the action and then the picture to the verb. Hope you will like it. - ESL worksheets
A day in the life of an adult transition program catering to students with moderate to severe learning disabilities. Our main focus is life skills, social skills, job skills, and community awareness.
1 page worksheets on kitchen safety. Answer key is only suggestions.
Picture dictionary and classroom poster ESL printable worksheets for kids to study and learn cooking verbs, kitchen verbs vocabulary. Look at the pictures and study the words. Useful for teaching and learning cooking verbs, kitchen verbs vocabulary. (2 sets of picture dictionaries)
kITCHEN VERBS - ESL worksheets
A picture dictionary. - ESL worksheets
Cooking in the classroom has never been easier - or more delicious - than with this collection of 27 cooking activities for kids!
Chopped Mystery Basket activity for culinary arts and family and consumer science classes. Students create dishes either virtually or with real ingredients based on the baskets given to them.
Here are 25 visual recipes for snacks and lunches that ONLY NEED a microwave! Perfect for cooking group in special education!
We saved the kids art work at our after school program and put on an art show for the community. We has art stations set out along with displaying the kids art work. We had cookies and juice for re…
"I have purchased visual recipes from other sellers and these are by FAR the best I've used. There are not so many steps that the recipe is overcomplicated--there are just enough. I love the comprehension piece of cooking in the classroom for my self-contained students and my resource groups. This r...
Over 25 ideas, recipes, and tips for cooking with preschoolers, pre-k, or kindergarten. These cooking recipes for kids and tips will help build skills.
This Prostart project is a tik-tok ramen challenge project in which high school and middle school students create a ramen bowl. It is a great knife skills project for FCS and Family consumer scienc…
Here are 25 visual recipes for snacks and lunches that ONLY NEED a microwave! Perfect for cooking group in special education!
Starting a cooking club is a no-brainer. Kids love food and enjoy the responsibility of making it and sharing it with others. Learning to cook builds confidence and independence. However, starting a successful cooking club can be intimidating at first. … Read More
Want to make cakes in the classroom without needing an oven? This blog includes easy no bake recipes for kids and features ways to involve this in learning.
Young children love to cook! This banana bread recipe for kids is perfect to practice early math and literacy skills in a fun way!
I’ve gotten a LOT of questions about how to cook with little to no supplies in the classroom so I’ve decided to do a round up of info to give you everything you need to start cooking with your kids and giving them some amazing skills. Cooking in the Classroom targets: + Life Skills + […]
This restaurant chef classroom transformation is a real-world activity that is great for elementary students to practice math as chefs in the kitchen.
Encourage language development, while fostering fine motor skills, following directions and other functional life skills. Cooking in the classroom with visual recipes, step by step recipes to foster those super important life skills, and work on those IEP goals and objectives... all at the same time!
Making butter in the classroom is one of our favorite activities to do in November. Perfect to fit right into your social studies unit. Come find out how to make it!
How to start kids cooking classes and turn it into a business.
This is a matching activity for cooking terms and their definitions. It can be used as a simple worksheet or the answer key can be cut into strips and done in small groups as a matching activity. - ESL worksheets
Don't pay to have someone else teach your kids to cook when you can host free DIY kids cooking classes at home with these super easy tips.
3 ways to teach kitchen measurements to middle school and high school students when learning to cook.
The only kitchen supplies and essentials you need to start cooking in your classroom. A simple cooking supply list to get started, including visual recipes. These supplies for cooking in the classroom are just what you need to get started. Click to get started now.
